CVE-2022-29918
highpriority · track · 35EPSS 0.006 · 46 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Mozilla developers Gabriele Svelto, Randell Jesup and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 99. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 100.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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weaknesses
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affected products (17)
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advisories (1)
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- WID-SEC-W-2022-0537Mozilla Firefox und Mozilla Firefox ESR: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2022-05-03csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Mozilla Firefox und Mozilla Firefox ESR ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen, vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen, einen nicht spezifizierten Angriff durchzuführen und beliebigen Code auszuführen.
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sources
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references (13)
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- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1744043%2C1747178%2C1753535%2C1754017%2C1755847%2C1756172%2C1757477%2C1758223%2C1760160%2C1761481%2C1761771cnnvd
- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2022-29918/cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Mozilla-Firefox-multiple-vulnerabilities-38205cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2022.2315cnnvd
- https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2022050314cnnvd
- https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2022051135cnnvd
- https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2022051711cnnvd
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-16/Patchcnnvd
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